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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt index 655750743fb0..be8d4006bf76 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt @@ -3,24 +3,25 @@ Intel P-state driver This driver provides an interface to control the P state selection for SandyBridge+ Intel processors. The driver can operate two different -modes based on the processor model legacy and Hardware P state (HWP) +modes based on the processor model, legacy mode and Hardware P state (HWP) mode. -In legacy mode the driver implements a scaling driver with an internal -governor for Intel Core processors. The driver follows the same model -as the Transmeta scaling driver (longrun.c) and implements the -setpolicy() instead of target(). Scaling drivers that implement -setpolicy() are assumed to implement internal governors by the cpufreq -core. All the logic for selecting the current P state is contained -within the driver; no external governor is used by the cpufreq core. +In legacy mode, the Intel P-state implements two internal governors, +performance and powersave, that differ from the general cpufreq governors of +the same name (the general cpufreq governors implement target(), whereas the +internal Intel P-state governors implement setpolicy()). The internal +performance governor sets the max_perf_pct and min_perf_pct to 100; that is, +the governor selects the highest available P state to maximize the performance +of the core. The internal powersave governor selects the appropriate P state +based on the current load on the CPU. In HWP mode P state selection is implemented in the processor itself. The driver provides the interfaces between the cpufreq core and the processor to control P state selection based on user preferences and reporting frequency to the cpufreq core. In this mode the -internal governor code is disabled. +internal Intel P-state governor code is disabled. -In addtion to the interfaces provided by the cpufreq core for +In addition to the interfaces provided by the cpufreq core for controlling frequency the driver provides sysfs files for controlling P state selection. These files have been added to /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/ |